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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Chong Pang accident: 1 victim in ICU

At about 8am, a dark grey Mercedes was reversing into a parking space
in front of Block 102 in Yishun Avenue 2 when the driver was said to
have lost control of the vehicle, which then continued on for 50m.

The car slammed into a number of stalls under the block - including a
newspaper stand and a vegetable stall, sending newspapers and red
onions flying into the air - before coming to a stop after another 50m.

It also hit a parked Toyota, dislodging the white car's bumper.

Two men and three women - in their 50s and 60s - were injured in the incident, which was captured by a closed-circuit TV camera in the
vicinity.

A video clip of the incident was uploaded online, and shows the
speeding car ramming into the stalls with the driver's door open.
Frantic passers-by can also be seen dashing out of the way.

A Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) spokesman said a phone call about the incident was received at about 8.15am.

When my paper visited the scene at about 1pm, there was no sign of
the car or any debris. A small shopping trolley, which stallholders said
belonged to one of the injured women, was propped up against a nearby
lamppost.

Ms Ma Jiayi, 45, a shop assistant at Lam Vegetables and Fruits, said
she heard a loud crash 10 minutes after she arrived for work. There were
about 10 customers at the shop at the time.

Recounting the screams and confusion that followed, she said: "I was so scared, I couldn't even react.

"One of the victims was sitting on the floor with a fractured leg. You could see the broken bone through his skin."